Tails

Tails is the resident trap based zoner in Sonic Smackdown. His gameplan revolves around completely shutting out the cast with Punch Bombers, and his various traps which can be augmented to be indestructible through the Shield Generator super.

Tails has had an infamous history of being considered the best character in the game, even with nerfs to his toolkit and buffs to anti-projectile moves and characters. His ability to keep out people for a whole match through his zoning is unparalleled, and few members of the cast can effectively get through it, with notably bad matchups being Metal Sonic and Mecha Sonic, and Emerl. His advantage state is very good, his neutral is considered to be very good as well, with his only weakness being a poor disadvantage state and difficulty making comebacks.

Sonic Smackdown player Kobie2210 has been known to find many game breaking bugs and generally frustrating strategies and setups with Tails, earning him much frustration from the community. Notable examples include many "GG" setups, which usually involved interrupting Tails grab with either Shock trap or Shield Generator activation in order to keep a player in a infinite hitstun state, or in one case, shield gen causing Spike trap to put someone in a situation where they would be killed from being forced to block for all of eternity.